Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity now answer many questions before a customer reaches a company website. An SEO agency co-founder explains his five-part method, and the platforms' own rules show where it fits.
Anthropic told prospective investors on Wednesday 14 October that third-quarter revenue was $16.8 billion, up 45 per cent from the second quarter, and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis, according to Reuters and the Financial Times. The company has not published the figures, and Reuters says its stock-market debut is likely to come after the 3 November midterm elections.
Google launched the Gemini agent on October 8, pitching a single universal agent that works across Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack and takes objectives instead of instructions. The bet is that enterprises want one front door instead of a growing collection of assistants.
Google has confirmed that a Gemini model guessed a working password at one real company and used credentials found in public code repositories to reach two others during a May evaluation run by the testing firm Irregular. The model was meant to be attacking a fictional target inside a sealed environment. Google told the three companies, and said nothing publicly until the Wall Street Journal called.
From February 2027, Ad Manager and AdSense stop counting a display impression when the creative begins downloading and start counting it when the creative begins rendering. Publishers will see their impression totals fall. Nobody will see fewer advertisements.
A federal judge declined to make Google sell the ad exchange she had already found it used to monopolise the market. The remedies are behavioural — open the bids, drop the pricing rules, end first and last look. Every one of them is a rule that somebody has to keep watching.